Canada
Travel Blogs from Canada
Natural Wonder
My short hop into Canada was almost at an end. Dawn had early classes for uni today which with me not exactly winning any speed records for getting ready this morning we said goodbye with most of the contents of my bag still decorating her floor. She had ...
Hardened Drinkers
The Pacific Northwest gets it's fair share of rain thinking I got a lucky for most of the time in Seattle to just find out it was waiting for me here. The slow morning waiting for the rain to ease off gave some time to update my journal trying to decide ...
Temporal anomaly
My brain got caught in one of those horrible circular anomalies last night, kind of like that Star Trek NG episode where they're all doomed to relive the same period of time over and over again until Picard intervenes to save the day. I was half ...
Goodbye Alaska - Hello Canada!
Dean: Crossed over the border today - my first land border crossing ever! Will provide further details soon! Alex: We are in Canada now, eh. Staying at a Rustic HI Hostel (their classification) and that is certainly what it is. It is just across the ...
World Tour of Toronto
... looking like big kids ourselves. With fingers numbing and ears and noses reddening we continued on across the frozen lands of Canada through Greece and Korea before finally arriving in Eastern Europe with out first sighting of a Polish shop sign. As ...
Happiest places in the world >> ASIA
... , the views are of carved temples and vivid prayer flags fluttering against a backdrop of snow-dusted mountains. #2. MONTRÉAL, CANADA If laughter is indeed the best medicine they should need fewer medics in Montréal. The Francophone capital of ...
The Cities - From First to Worst
On our way home, somewhere over the Atlantic I took a drink napkin and began to scribble a few notes about the cities Ellen and I visited over the past six weeks. In no time I was in a frenzy; napkins started flying all over the cabin. Here's my ...
The British in British Columbia
There is a very pretty building in Victoria that is used on all their tourism brochures and on arrival into town we discovered it is their Legislative Building. You can take a free tour of it and so we poked about the place. At night the building is lit ...
Winter in Canada.
I am getting SOOOO excited to go on the cruise. I finally booked my flight to Miami - 540$ Cdn from Toronto to Miami...I get there the morning of the cruise and leave the day we arrive back. I wanted to stay a day or two in Miami, but I have ...
Sad News and Exciting times
I heard some sad news on the radio this morning. Jonathan Stuemer tried to kill his father in the middle of the night. I'm not sure if you know who I am talking about so let me explain a little. The Stuemers are a local Ottawa family that took their ...
Ottawa - Departure
My bags are packed and I am off!! After several months of planning and eager anticipation, the biggest single trip I have ever undertaken is finally here. Maybe it is the wonderful thought of the $1 beer in Prague or nervous anticipation about the ...
Back Home
My plane ride was generally very good except I placed my expensive, ear plugs (that prevent popping of ears) on the food tray that was taken away and placed into the plane's galley black hole. Oh well, that was the worst thing to happen in my whole ...
Stop #6
Stopover. Tried meeting Katrine's friend Andrea who goes to University nearby. She was busy. Went for a bike ...
Packing
Packing isn't all it's cracked up to be. Well, I guess it's not really cracked up to be all that really is it? Moving would be easier if we were actually moving out. As it is we are having to go through all of our possessions with a fine toothed comb. ...
Cabbage Patch
Digging out some of the fruit we found buried under the snow in Chinatown yesterday it was mango pancakes all round with a dollop of maple syrup just to Canadiafy them. Still brass monkeys outside but clearer skies so we ventured out on a walk with me ...
ADAM TURNS 22!
... kind-of-see-through shirt. The "Johnny and Adam" duo had a real knack for getting picked up by girls. In French-speaking Canada, also, women seemed to stop a lot more for us. So, Johnny and Adam were hanging out with girls in see-through ...
Pardon, which way to Canada?
Quebec government might as well have put up a border crossing between the states of Ontario and Quebec they are so different. The biggest difference you notice immediately, besides no one speaking any English, is that the Canadian flags we saw almost all ...
Training Camp #3: Things are getting intense!!!
Hello Everyone, Well, God has been absolutely amazing this week as we have began to prepare our progams and shows. This past week has been extremely intense because we have constantly had assignments to turn in. On Tuesday, all of the VTI teams ...
Noooooooooooooooo!!!
... - MY JOURNAL! Racing back up the stairs the security staff would not let me back through so got an Air Canada staff person to look for it barely 5 minutes after I had hung up the phone. Nothing. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Checking ...
Hey Guys, Training Camp Update
Hey Everyone, Well this past week has been absolutely amazing a training camp. We did your first childrens program yesterday, and it went really well. We have been getting our General Audience Program ready and will be putting that on at our ...
Down to Whitehorse
Dean: Up early and out at the edge of town for 09:00. Not much traffic going our way so pickings are slim (for hitching). We stayed there until 10:30 and then decided to give up (as we wanted food again!), but just at that point a huge truck pulled up ...
Big water and bright lights
... is not known to be a great wine producer but were pleasantly surprised by a few of the estates. Before we'd arrived I never knew Canada produced anything besides ice wine but soon we found out besides a few unheard of varietals they were able to produce a ...
OOPS!
Who would figure that Victoria Harbor is on Vancouver Island, and not in Vancouver, which is not the island. Well we figured this out at 01:00AM, 11 Hours before our flight from Victoria Harbor to Seattle. So we googled around and found that the cheapest ...
Home-bound
... drive the highways for 45 minutes across town and the cityscape just seems so... lonely. There's no shortage of people at the Air Canada check-in counter. Our flight in two hours has already been delayed, as have almost all the flights, by more than an ...
Wekk Forty Four - still Vancouver
Week Forty Four - Vancouver Day 286 - Tuesday 22 June Over the next few days we just went with our routine, soaking up the culture and a few Coronas. Day 287 - Wednesday 23 June Geoff decides that he needs some last minute tanning so we laze ...
Road Trip
Im not really sure what it means when your road trip begins with a trip to the "Kwiki Mart", one of a few 7/11's in North America that converted itself into a Kwiki Mart was just down the road from the start of our trip.. so we stopped in and grabbed ...
And now, a visit to Hugo!
After a few weeks in Kingston, I've decided that it's time to hit the road again soon. Don't get me wrong...I'm having a blast here. But it's altogether way too easy to spend my days at the Goat, drinking coffee, visiting with friends, and doing very ...
100 days of summer
Vancouver is running a campaign at the moment "100 days of summer" which is scaring us that there is a timeline on summer sunshine. We have about 90 days to go. Canadians delight in tormenting us with "the current sunshine is out of character" tales ...
